An anecdote in this novel describes how a man's father was killed when he was forced to swallow all the keys on a key chain before being hanged in a well with a hook in his te
An anecdote in this novel describes how a man's father was killed when he was forced to swallow all the keys on a key chain before being hanged in a well with a hook in his testicles. One man in this work tells a story of how he was trapped in a pitch black basement for several days with two starving mastiff hounds that he has to shoot. One character was formerly engaged to the lobbyist Mr. Delaney and hid a letter from her father saying he had abandoned the family after the war to shack up with a mulatto woman in Cuba, later Pedrito and Innocencio Mansalvo help her transport a corpse to be buried in Arlington Cemetery that had been exhumed through the intervention of the Washington Star newspaper. In this novel a school teacher comes to the Miranda hacienda where she becomes the lover of General Tomas Arroyo, but Harriet Winslow eventually falls in love with the elderly title character, who "came to Mexico to die." For 10 points, name this novel about the last days of Ambrose Bierce written by Carlos Fuentes.
An anecdote in this novel describes how a man's father was killed when he was forced to swallow all the keys on a key chain before being hanged in a well with a hook in his testicles.
The {Old Gringo} [accept {Gringo Viejo}]